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Solidago nemoralis
Aiton, Hort. Kew. 3: 213. 1789.
Gray or gray-stemmed or old-field goldenrod , verge d'or des bois
Plants
20—100 cm; caudices short-branched.
Stems
1—6(—10) , erect, short-canescent (hairs ascending to appressed).
Leaves:
basal and proximal cauline tapering to long, winged petioles, blades spatulate-ovate to oblanceolate, 20—95 × 7—15 mm, margins crenate to entire, apices acute, faces densely puberulent; mid and distal cauline (sometimes subtending axillary tufts of lateral branch leaves) sessile, blades linear-oblance-olate, 16—45 × 3—7 mm, reduced distally, margins entire.
Heads
10—300, secund, in wandlike pyramidal, paniculiform arrays, secund to apically recurved, 8—25 × 2.5—10 cm, sometimes proximal branches elongate, repeating pattern.
Peduncles
2—3.5 mm, bracteoles 0—4, linear.
Involucres
narrowly campanulate, 2.6—5.8 mm.
Phyllaries
in 3 series, ovate to linear-lanceolate, unequal, outer acute, inner obtuse.
Ray florets
5—11; laminae 2.8—5.5 × 0.3—0.7 mm.
Disc florets
3—10; 2.5—4.6 mm, lobes 0.4-0.6 mm.
Cypselae
(obconic) 0.5—2 mm, strigose;
pappi
2—4 mm.
Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora): North America.
The arrays can be elongate with ends bent nearly 90—180°.
